The Art of Kamau Brathwaite

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Author: Stewart Brown

Publisher: Seren Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 288

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Kamau Brathwaite won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1994. The Art of Kamau Brathwaite is a ground-breaking book in which leading commentators on Black and Caribbean writing explore and discuss all aspects of Brathwaite's work as poet, historian, and cultural archivist. Brathwaite provides a 'proem' on cultural dislocation, and is the subject of an interview. The international list of contributors includes Gordon Rohlehr, doyen of Caribbean critics, Glyne Griffith, Nathaniel Mackey from America, Ted Chamberlain from Canada, and Louis James, Anne Walmsley and Bridget Jones from Britain.

Middle Passages

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Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780811212328

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Kamau Brathwaite's poetry offers stunning collages devoted to the history, mythology, and language of the African diaspora, and has gained him a world reputation. Middle Passages, his most recent collection, is his sixteenth poetry volume, but his first with an American publisher. With notes of protest and lament, the fourteen poems of Middle Passages address the effects of the Middle Passage of slavery on the New World, and celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney, and Nelson Mandela. And as the London Times Literary Supplement noted, it is "a poetry that moves between rage and tenderness, doubt and displacement to affirmation... Middle Passages is a potent and effective book, a work of passion and integrity."

DS (2)

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Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780811216937

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The startling new work by internationally celebrated Caribbean poet, historian and cultural theorist Kamau Brathwaite, winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Black + Blues

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Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9780811213134

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A collection of poems includes Fetish, Totem, Caliban, Springblade, Bread, Xango, and Koker.

Ancestors

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Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780811214483

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Offers a revised edition of Brathwaite's Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self poems which explore the author's family and childhood in Barbados and his experiences with slavery and colonialism.

X/self

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Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 152

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These poems trace Brathwaite's African/Caribbean ancestry. Gives the reader what is effectively an account of the African diaspora, in the language of a great poet.

Conversations with Nathaniel Mackey

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Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9780966897609

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Literary Criticism. African American and Caribbean Studies. Kamau Brathwiate's CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY is based on the transcript of his discussion with Nathaniel Mackey at Poet's House in New York City. Brathwaite expansively elaborates on Mackey's (and audience member's) knowledgeable inquiries; his answers are layered with subsequent ruminations arising from his lifelong engagement with world literature and expressive cultures. A multiphasic drift, CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY combines elements of biography and autobiography with poetic discourse on Caribbean literary history and negative effects of colonial domination. Brathwaite splices dialog with poetry, criticism, and instrictive imaginary voices in his now distinct and characteristic Sycorax 'video style' format. Both Brathwaite and Mackey have several titles carried by SPD. Mackey's ERODING WITNESS is newly available, along with WHATSAID SERIF (City Lights) and DJOBOT BAGHOSTUS'S RUN (Sun & Moon) Brathwaite's BLAC

Caribbean Culture

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Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 452

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The book presents a representative selection of the papers presented at the second Conference on Caribbean Culture in honour of Kamau Brathwaite.

DreamStories

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Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 1116

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This collection of prose-poems are full of the inconsistencies, broken images and half-told stories of dreams. Using a variety of typefaces, languages and breaks, the author creates fiction from personal trauma and adds to the tradition of dream journeying.

New World Modernisms

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Author: Charles W. Pollard

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780813922782

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Pollard looks to recent Caribbean poetry as a means of reassessing modernism's cosmopolitanism; in particular, his book redefines the cosmopolitan influence of T.S. Eliot's modernism by examining how his ideas have been transformed by the two leading Anglophone Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite.